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Digital Pathology AI Scales Into a Validation Framework Built for Assays, Not Algorithms

As AI-assisted digital pathology expands across CLIA-certified labs, the real decision is whether existing CAP validation checklists can actually capture algorithmic performance.

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Clinical AI Already Has Rules. Most Deployments Sit Outside Them.

The real governance decision for health systems is not whether to build an AI committee, but which deployments already sit inside CLIA, ONC certification, or HIPAA, and which sit in open air.

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The Clinical Lab's Agent Problem

Laboratory informatics vendors are shipping autonomous agents into CLIA-regulated workflows faster than labs can validate what those agents actually do.

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Lab Agents Are Filling the Gap Between CLIA and ONC

Vendors are shipping agentic orchestration into CLIA-regulated labs just as ONC narrows certification scope, leaving lab directors without a validation standard or an authority map.

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The NeoGenomics-Indica Labs Deal Is a Vendor Governance Question, Not Just an Infrastructure One

As a decade-long AI pathology vendor relationship scales across a national lab network, the open question for lab leadership is contractual, not technical.